Celebrating Community
PS 676 had their holiday gift giving party after the last day of school before Christmas vacation ,but this year it was an even bigger event. The 2019 gift giving-party for the kids was held in the gym for everyone in the school and their siblings, according to parent coordinator Marie Hueston. This was so that there would be more […]
In October, at PS 676, English Language Arts teacher Jen Thomas led her fifth-grade class across the Hamilton Avenue Footbridge, which spans the Gowanus Expressway between Red Hook and Carroll Gardens. Directly on the other side, the students got to take a look at Brooklyn Collaborative, a school for grades six through 12 that some of them may attend next […]
The seventh annual Barnacle Parade took over the streets of Red Hook on the evening of October 29. This year, the homemade neighborhood extravaganza took on the theme “Hook-Lantis, ”reimagining Red Hook as a fully underwater city, where public submarines–with humans and sea creatures alike as co-passengers–stand in for MTA buses. As usual, the event drew a wide range of […]
On October 5th, Prospect Heights resident Jabari Brisport launched a campaign for State Senate in District 25, which stretches from Bedford-Stuyvesant to Sunset Park and includes Red Hook. A math teacher at Medgar Evers College Preparatory School, Brisport ran for City Council on the Green Party line in 2017, earning 29 percent of the vote, but will now vie for the Democratic Party’s nomination. Brisport’s anticapitalist platform advocates […]
Summit Academy founder Natasha Campbell is frustrated by low community turnout at the many local events that are intended to be a service to the neighborhood. She invited Red Hook residents to the school meeting to talk about working together. “When you have a million people working on the same project for different organizations, there is little collaboration and what […]
A controversial plan to revise the admissions formula at neighborhood public schools may take longer than expected. Over the last six months, District 15 community members’ representatives from the Department of Education and the Department of Planning have been discussing a potential rezoning for the seven local elementary schools: PS 15, PS 29, PS 32, PS 38, PS 58, PS […]
It’s not the sexiest subject, but Red Hook’s ongoing reinvention as an e-commerce shipping hub has for me piqued an interest in logistics. For all their expected negative environmental externalities, the forthcoming last-mile distribution centers on Columbia Street, along with the planned UPS complex near Valentino Pier, at least offer a measure of historical continuity in a neighborhood that once […]
When Hurricane Irene made landfall in New York in 2011, Red Hook experienced storm surge flooding that made residents think about hurricane preparedness more seriously. But Superstorm Sandy forever changed the neighborhood a year later with unparalleled flooding and 12-foot-high storm surges that left locals to literally pick up the pieces and rebuild from scratch. Neighbors relied on one another […]
Imagine, if you can, an episode of Pee-Wee’s Playhouse directed by John Waters. The manic energy of the gray-suited man-child’s retro-kitsch house-slash-living-toybox would still rule – talking furniture and beehived visitors feel very on-brand for the Pope of Trash – but it would arrive with a more lacerating, NSFW edge. Miss Yvone might be closer to Waters Dreamlander Divine than heteronormative […]
Red Hook now has a whale-themed mural at the intersection of Nelson and Columbia streets. The mural is aimed at improving the intersection while further boosting the awareness of local students about their community. The artist who created mural was Annabelle Popa. She has painted several murals around the city and outside of the city. A ribbon-cutting was held by […]